CMS approved cuts in Medi-Cal in California, which will have consequences for Medi-Cal patients to find quality health care providers in California

by | Oct 28, 2011 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica

CMS, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved  California state budget proposals to reduce Medi-Cal provider reimbursement rates by 10 % , which will have consequences for Medi-Cal patients to find quality health care providers in...

Subsidized Pre-Existing Health Program (PCIP) – one measure of affordable health insurance in Santa Monica, California falls short of enrollment

by | Oct 27, 2011 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica

The  enrollment of the subsidized health insurance program for pre exisiting health conditons (PCIP), one measure to offer affordable health insurance in Santa Monica  and the rest of  California, falls still short of expectations. After its first anniversary, there...

Blue Shield announces another 283 million in premium refund – this is one way to offer affordable health insurance in Brentwood

by | Oct 19, 2011 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica

 One way to offer affordable health insurance is the additional $ 283 premium refund announcement in December by Blue Shield Customers for its 2 million policy holders in California  Blue Shield, the San Francisco non profit insurer, had promised to return money to...

Anthem will drop Wallgreens Pharmacy – a consequence to offer affordable health insurance in Brentwood

by | Oct 10, 2011 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica

In order to keep the pharmaceutical cost down and to be still able to offer affordable health insurance in Brentwood, Anthem announced that beginning January 2012  prescriptions will be no longer filled at Wallgreens. Accordingly to a report 2010 by the CDC the US...

Inadequate health insurance rose 80 % in the last 7 years – affordable health insurance in Brentwood an utopia?

by | Sep 23, 2011 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica

The number of adults whose health insurance was inadequate rose 80 % from 2003 to 2010 accordingly to a report by the Commonwealth Fund published in the journal of Health Affairs, which leads us to the questions is affordable health insurance in Brentwood an utopia?...